LessonsSupplementary Practice 28 — Comparative Rhetoric of Sūrat al-Aʿlā and Sūrat al-GhāshiyahQuiz

لَيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِنْ ضَرِيعٍ ۞ لَا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِي مِنْ جُوعٍ
They have no food except from ḍarīʿ, which neither nourishes nor relieves hunger. (88:6–7)

Laysa ... illā restricts the available food to a dreadful substance. “Neither nourishes nor relieves hunger” then denies two distinct benefits: bodily strengthening and the alleviation of hunger.

The repeated negation is not empty duplication. It shows separate failures of the same food and clarifies what makes the punishment severe. Formal restriction and the content of that restriction both matter.

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Restriction and double denial of benefit

Supplementary Practice 28 — Comparative Rhetoric of Sūrat al-Aʿlā and Sūrat al-Ghāshiyah

لَيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِنْ ضَرِيعٍ ۞ لَا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِي مِنْ جُوعٍ
They have no food except from ḍarīʿ, which neither nourishes nor relieves hunger. (88:6–7)

Laysa ... illā restricts the available food to a dreadful substance. “Neither nourishes nor relieves hunger” then denies two distinct benefits: bodily strengthening and the alleviation of hunger.

The repeated negation is not empty duplication. It shows separate failures of the same food and clarifies what makes the punishment severe. Formal restriction and the content of that restriction both matter.